Category: America

Silicon Valley and its New York counterpart Silicon Alley have long reigned as the main coastal hubs for tech innovation. Founders, venture capitalists, and tech employees flock to the Bay Area and New York City to launch and build startups, Read More …

Overshadowed by the snow-capped Andes mountains, surrounded by miles of luscious vineyards, Chile’s capital city has generally been more of a destination for wine lovers or a stop-off point for travellers reaching other parts of the region. But much to Read More …

Free trade zones are those zones in which taxes, tariffs, customs, financial or regulatory advantages are offered to companies that establish themselves within them, in order to carry out their activities. In Colombia, thanks to the special location free trade Read More …

The U.S. economic outlook is healthy according to the key economic indicators. The most critical indicator is gross domestic product, which measures the nation’s production output. The GDP growth rate is expected to remain between the 2 percent to 3 percent ideal range. Unemployment Read More …

Over the past few years Mexico’s image has suffered from headlines concerning the practices and actions of drug cartels, and the political and police corruption that seems to enable the cartels to survive and grow. While there is no denying Read More …

last year, I wrote an article about the 11 Canadian tech companies to watch in 2016, which highlighted tech companies of all sizes in Canada that were ready to make headlines over the following 12 months. The great part about most Read More …

Brazil’s economic and social progress between 2003 and 2014 lifted 29 million people out of poverty and inequality dropped significantly (the Gini coefficient fell by 6.6 percentage points in the same period, from 58.1 down to 51.5). The income level Read More …

Few economies have performed as poorly over the past century as crisis-plagued Argentina. The nation even has the unique distinction of losing a tenure, albeit a brief one, in the early part of the 20th century as one of the Read More …

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(Reuters) - The European Commission proposed rules on Wednesday to make digital companies pay their fair share of tax, with U.S. tech giants such as Google (GOOGL.O), Facebook (FB.O) and Amazon (AMZN.O) set to foot a large chunk of the bill.